How to Use lost in a Sentence

lost

adjective
  • Many have tried to find the ruins of the lost city.
  • We took a wrong turn and got lost.
  • He was looking for his lost keys.
  • Hold my hand. I don't want you to get lost.
  • He has been trying to recapture his lost youth.
  • The original music is lost to us forever.
  • The weight of the unsaid and the unspeakable, the lost and the left out, hangs over the poem’s head.
    New York Times, 2 Nov. 2023
  • The pied piper of lost souls, the melancholy maestro.. tonite was your night.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The lost boy, whose name was Bill, was sixteen years old.
    David Owen, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2023
  • There's danger along the way, as she'll be forced to battle her way to the lost rebel.
    Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 7 Apr. 2023
  • And the one that didn't result in a punt ended in a lost fumble.
    Ryan Morik, Fox News, 23 Sep. 2023
  • This is the second time in the past 13 months that a lost pig was found roaming the streets of Pleasanton.
    Jordan Parker, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2023
  • This Clothing Stamp will help sort out the lost and found bins and save a ton of time with a Sharpie.
    Matthew Parker, Rolling Stone, 19 Nov. 2023
  • Otherwise, Hertz charges a flat fee of $250 for a lost key.
    Christopher Elliott, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Mar. 2023
  • There were more than a dozen messages, each a time capsule from a lost life.
    Safak Timur Emin Ozmen, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2024
  • The Celtics challenged the call and lost, taking away their last timeout, and Mitchell’s two free throws tied the score at 109.
    Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Full-length skate videos are a lost art form because of costs and logistics, so now the part is the whole.
    Bret Anthony Johnston, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
  • With two games left in a lost campaign, why not let Boban pull the trigger from beyond the arc?
    Michael Shapiro, Chron, 6 Apr. 2023
  • So add a little salty to all of your Easter sweets to keep with the lost tradition.
    Andrea Wurzburger, Peoplemag, 7 Apr. 2023
  • No, this was the lost grandfather on your father’s side.
    Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 14 Apr. 2023
  • People are drawn to him – Niko, a lost child in the park, the bookseller, a transient homeless man.
    Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Feb. 2024
  • It’s not a lost cause for this team to figure it out on that end of the floor, and maybe the group will get it together in the coming weeks.
    Michael Haag, Dallas News, 18 Jan. 2023
  • How about those charming long lines and that mountain of lost luggage?
    Forbeslife forbes Staff, Forbes, 5 May 2023
  • Sobel sees the lost grant as part of long pattern of resistance.
    Ashley Miznazi, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Jan. 2024
  • But in 2012 Klaus Lebrecht located the lost shed, and now the two are reunited.
    Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Amid all that Bat-business, the show’s own identity tends to get a little lost.
    Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The couple filed a claim to the town asking for $5,000 to help pay for medical bills and recoup from lost salary months out of work.
    Maritza Dominguez, The Arizona Republic, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Conklin scoured the circus for water, but it had been used up — the elephants had been fed, the goat had been bathed, and all hope seemed lost.
    Allison Robicelli, Washington Post, 21 June 2023
  • McDaniel brought a lost offense back to life last season.
    Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 20 Feb. 2023
  • The reality is this style is a lost art, and houses like this are very hard to make today.
    David Netto, Town & Country, 6 Mar. 2023

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